Motivational Quotes

Peace

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

- Serling, Rod

Best Quotes about Peace

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

W. Somerset Maugham

Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

Right human relations is the only true peace.

Bailey, Alice A.

Don't tell me peace has broken out.

Brecht, Bertolt

Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.

Kempis, Thomas

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

Milton, John

Please, we can get along here.

King, Rodney

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Inge, Dean William R.

If you wish for peace be ready for war.

Proverb

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Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.

Hubbard, Kin

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Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.

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Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Fulghum, Robert

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You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

Lennon, John

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He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

Sadat, Anwar

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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.

Nicols, Peter

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For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe.

Eisenberg, Larry

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Peace is produced by war.

Corneille, Pierre

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Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.

A Course In Miracles

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Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

Hardie, James Keir

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If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then -- let us make no mistake -- pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.

Murry, John Middleton

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When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

Frank, Borman

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If you want peace work for justice.

Pope Paul VI

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One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?

Meyer, Michael Holmboe

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Peace with a club in hand is war.

Proverb, Portuguese

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One sword keeps another in the sheath.

Herbert, George

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament -- disarmament follows peace.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.

Unesco

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If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.

George C. Marshall

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I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Truman, Harry S

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Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

Allen, James

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To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

Washington, George

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Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Jerrold, Douglas William

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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Muste, A. J.

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Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Hubbard, Kin

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We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.

Pilgrim, Peace

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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.

Hill, Napoleon

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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.

Bible

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They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]

Bible

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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

Thomas a Kempis

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To get Peace you must work for Justice.

John Paul VI

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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.